Staff Engineer

Summary

Join OpenTable's Restaurant Platform team as a Staff Engineer and provide technical leadership, direction, and mentorship. You will drive cross-team projects, collaborate with other teams, and participate in design reviews. This hands-on role requires expertise in Java, Spring framework, and distributed systems. You'll work with a multi-functional team building key features for the OpenTable for Restaurant software platform. The ideal candidate possesses 9+ years of backend software engineering experience and strong communication skills. OpenTable offers various benefits, including paid vacation, parental leave, and a focus on employee well-being.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed applications
• Expertise in Java, Spring framework and Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• Experience working with large-scale, distributed, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and systems, and understanding of the core principles around observability & monitoring, performance, high availability, scalability, reliability and security
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - enjoy working with engineers, designers and product owners
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes and message buses like Kafka; proficiency with Git
• Discipline at unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience working in an agile-based methodology
• Self-motivated to build and share knowledge and skill; has the ability and desire to mentor as well as be mentored
• Dedicated professional who forms opinions and enjoys discussion yet remains personable and approachable
• Proven experience in providing technical leadership and direction
• Experience collaborating with remote teams across time zones

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, direction, and mentorship to the engineering team
• Drive cross-team projects
• Collaborate with other teams to achieve organizational initiatives
• Participate in design reviews
• Define robust engineering practices
• Be a key member of a multi-functional team that builds and designs key features for our OpenTable for Restaurant software platform

Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• One Celebration Day per calendar year
• Focus on mental health and well-being
• Company-wide weeks off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Generous paid parental leave
• Focus on your career growth
• Work from (almost) anywhere ; wherever you do your best work
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pension Fund